Coronavirus

[Bjornebye]

 

 

[cloggypop]

Can't believe I missed Ken Barlow's Meditation Tips. 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, cloggypop said:

Can't believe I missed Ken Barlow's Meditation Tips. 

Im gutted. It will definitely have involved tantric masturbation. 

[Strontium]

1 minute ago, moof said:

So what you’re saying is, if we could just have a bit of a pandemic from time to time climate change would be solved. Just once a year a nice little pandemic that brings the world to a standstill. Hey, I like where you’re going with this. Keep that line of thought

 

Well, it would be nice if we could have the environmental improvements without the killer disease. 

 

I am already thinking about the post-corona landscape. I think working from home will become much more commonplace, the genie is out of the bottle there. Hopefully people will learn the lessons about disease prevention and persist with better personal hygiene.

[moof]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Well, it would be nice if we could have the environmental improvements without the killer disease. 

 

 

Gosh, that WOULD be nice, wouldn’t it?

[Strontium]

You make it sound like I haven't been calling for massive investment in clean energy technologies for decades.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

You make it sound like I haven't been calling for massive investment in clean energy technologies for decades.

Could this be factored in when Dave U writes his 1986 match report?

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

They can’t do that though, unless she’s not been there long.  

She's been there over 2 years.

[Strontium]

3 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Could this be factored in when Dave U writes his 1986 match report?

 

1986 possibly too early for that, but would probably take in 7 year old me's excoriation of the new McDonald's drive thru for encouraging needless car use.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

1986 possibly too early for that, but would probably take in 7 year old me's excoriation of the new McDonald's drive thru for encouraging needless car use.

I'm sure 7 year old you was fuming about excessive car use. Utter fucking rubbish. Unless you saw someone get a better toy car in their happy meal of course. 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I'm sure 7 year old you was fuming about excessive car use. Utter fucking rubbish. Unless you saw someone get a better toy car in their happy meal of course. 

Cars? In happy meals? I feel like I have lived a deprived childhood. All I remember getting is plastic dolls and key rings.

 

Are you sure you got cars?

 

Edit: Anyone who got cars can fuck off! I never knew that!

 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Shooter in the Motor said:

Cars? In happy meals? I feel like I have lived a deprived childhood. All I remember getting is plastic dolls and key rings.

 

Are you sure you got cars?

I never ate McDonalds as a kid. Or jaffa cakes. Took me until adulthood to appreciate the value of a couple of double cheeseburgers on a hangover. 

 

Actually, tell a lie, I remember a couple of visits to McDonalds when I was very young and always used to kick off about gherkins. Oh and excessive use of certain chemical agents in the latrines. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

I never ate McDonalds as a kid. Or jaffa cakes. Took me until adulthood to appreciate the value of a couple of double cheeseburgers on a hangover. 

 

Actually, tell a lie, I remember a couple of visits to McDonalds when I was very young and always used to kick off about gherkins. Oh and excessive use of certain chemical agents in the latrines. 

I loved their 99p double cheeseburgers! They were the adult happy meal! I might have to buy some baps, burgers and cheese slices for a trip down memory lane (in the plastic car that I hope to get in the bag).

[Bjornebye]

[Dr Nowt]

40 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

12,000 deaths a year in the UK from NO₂ pollution:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/23/uk-has-second-highest-number-of-deaths-from-no2-pollution-in-europe

 

(Italy is the worst in Europe, incidentally, which is doubtless a contributory factor to their virus problem)

 

Now look at current NO₂ levels:

 

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/latest/currentlevels

 

Green across the board.

 

Coronavirus is a horrible thing which is killing people. But it's also going to save lives elsewhere.

Can we all agree up front you’re not allowed to deduct annual pollution deaths from the final Coronavirus death toll, in order to bolster your seasonal flu shout?

[Strontium]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

I'm sure 7 year old you was fuming about excessive car use. Utter fucking rubbish. Unless you saw someone get a better toy car in their happy meal of course. 

 

You obviously didn't know 7 year old me.

 

I can't remember exactly when the Edge Lane McDonald's opened, but I was in primary school at the time so I was between 7 and 9. Our school was on Edge Lane, and McDonald's had evidently been in touch with local schools to spread the good word, and as part of this we all were asked to write about how great it was that a new McDonald's was opening nearby.

 

As I recall, I was the only one who wrote a piece criticising them for encouraging meat consumption and car use, and for using unrecyclable polystyrene containers. The teacher said I was entitled to my opinion.

[Strontium]

1 minute ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Can we all agree up front you’re not allowed to deduct annual pollution deaths from the final Coronavirus death toll, in order to bolster your seasonal flu shout?

 

Fine, but I think they should count in the event of a tie.

[Dr Nowt]

Just now, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Fine, but I think they should count in the event of a tie.

Agreed.

Away deaths count double in that eventuality.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

You obviously didn't know 7 year old me.

 

I can't remember exactly when the Edge Lane McDonald's opened, but I was in primary school at the time so I was between 7 and 9. Our school was on Edge Lane, and McDonald's had evidently been in touch with local schools to spread the good word, and as part of this we all were asked to write about how great it was that a new McDonald's was opening nearby.

 

As I recall, I was the only one who wrote a piece criticising them for encouraging meat consumption and car use, and for using unrecyclable polystyrene containers. The teacher said I was entitled to my opinion.

I bet you were still a tit. 

 

I still don't believe you but fair play if you are telling the truth. 

 

And your teacher was right. 

 

 

[SasaS]

Over 100,000 recovered now. Enough to repopulate the Earth I guess.

[Tony Moanero]

14 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Cars? In happy meals? I feel like I have lived a deprived childhood. All I remember getting is plastic dolls and key rings.

 

Are you sure you got cars?

 

Edit: Anyone who got cars can fuck off! I never knew that!

 

Pissed on Happy Meal toys, this.

 

[Mike D]

1 minute ago, SasaS said:

Over 100,000 recovered now. Enough to repopulate the Earth I guess.

 

 

[Spy Bee]

If the tested all 63 million people in the UK now, I wonder how many would have had it and not been tested, and had it and not even known. There does seem to be a high number of asymptomatic people.

[SasaS]

2 minutes ago, Mike D said:

 

I can see them swimming with dolphins in Venice.

[SasaS]

6 minutes ago, Mike D said:

All those Chinese and Koreans, ruled over by 422 Germans, ja!