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The benefits of the vaccine very clear for us to see in our family. My 88 year old dad and 80 year old mum both caught it and my dad was a bit sick for 36 hours, and my mum just had a cough. My dad has lung issues that don’t debilitate his life (he plays golf 4 days a week) but would have seen COVID kill him without a vaccine. My non vaccinated 4 year old has now caught it and it’s knocked the shit out of him. High temperature, sore throat exasperated by a bad cough and zero energy. Poor fella.

Mum went in for the op on her back yesterday and as they were concerned by her arm operated on that at the same time too. Results from the op will be 6-8 weeks and she’s waiting for an appointment for the sentinel node biopsy but they want to do that one under general anaesthetic.

Bone scan 7th April now. GTFI, YNWA etc etc.

I think they got that one right, Jeff. You see, if the boy Smith, if he had knocked Chris's head clean off, that would have been a straight red. No doubt about that. But because the lad caught him but didn't appear to injure him, I think - under the current rules - that a good talking to was all that was required. You could say Chris has done him a favour, actually, by staying on his feet. If he'd gone down, you could well be looking at Denzil Washington as Best Actor now. The FA does have that power....

Good of you to let him use your duvet. Hope he gets better soon.

Red Cross have been absolute twats, shaking Putin's hand, agreeing the humanitarian corridor to go only to Russia and trousering a significant wedge of proceeds to the cause. We've decided to spend the proceeds of our funds on a number of fronts, including medical aid Ukraine: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/medicalaidukraine?fbclid=IwAR35H0i9yIsBiBpyQbBYZRWpzHBgdg1pJuAPcJQV7Xbv3kUc2aOe_3lvBaw and Neko's pet link above. Our house of 4 of us plus our Neko (cat) is about to double it's human population. My mother in law will hopefully cross the Polish border tomorrow and fly here on Thursday. My wife's other best friend Dasha in Lviv is doing the paperwork for us to sponsor her. She has a 6 year old boy and is.... 7 months pregnant! No more working from home for me.

Guess who spends to much time on right wing US sites. Arse.

Her - I want to go to that DIY Kitchens place, can you find out where it is Me - It says its near Pontefract Her - Ooh we haven't been to Wales for ages. Me - fuck sake

Sounds like a false-plastic-flag operation.

RIP

Think this was mentioned on the first page, but "Life" by Des'ree is incredibly bad. Sounds like it was written by an eight year old. I'm afraid of the dark Especially when I'm in the park When there's no one else around Oh I get the shivers I don't wanna see a ghost It's the sight that I fear most I'd rather have a piece of toast Actually, I think I'm being unfair to eight year olds.

It was amazing how badly she was treated. She was consulted by paleontologists from all over the world and all the biggest scientific institutes and responsible for loads of new and unique discoveries, but they wouldn't let her be in their club(s). Her only writing published in her lifetime was her telling an esteemed scientist off in a letters page of a journal for being wrong. Despite being a genuine world authority on things she was rejected because she was a working class woman. Despite being treated like shit she carried on getting better and better and increasing her knowledge, and ours. Remarkable human.

I’m afraid, Julia, that unnecessary deaths of the vulnerable, and strain on the NHS, have been formally normalised in the minds of the general public. Acceptable losses to avoid some basic courtesies to others.

So hang on (I'm not a fan of Harry and his bird either), they've effectively treated his wife badly enough that they've moved to the other side of the planet, they've told him his kids can't have titles, and they've said he has to pay for his own security, but then won't let him pay for his own security? And yet they expect him drop everything to pay respects to a racist old lizard who probably treated his wife like she was staff? If I was Harry I'd be staying in California too!

Has he been talking to you? Because he's not feckin shut up about that exact thing!

For his money has he ever really enjoyed a cup of tea?

Has he had the vaccine? It's the vaccine, it must be the vaccine. I'm only asking the question. It was the vaccine.

At the rate Moshiri is pumping cash in he will soon own 120% of the club

This one has hit me hard. Taylor was a legend. Be listening to the foo's all day. Devastated

Has anyone ever had about 5 massive shits on the same day? That happened to me on Sunday, no diarrhea but solid shits. Never felt so empty in the evening. Must have been a backlog or something.

Used to be a kid in my Mrs's school who used to shit himself nearly every day. They put him through a whole battery of physical and psychological tests and couldn't find anything wrong with him. The boffins' conclusion was that he simply enjoyed it. I found it both horrifying and amazing in equal measure.

Their relegation rivals should be kicking off big time over this.

That wasn't the doctor mate.

Oh I don’t know it highlighted the issue and agitated a load of Putin apologists so job done I’d say.

Poor little fella, sick kids was God's worst invention. Totally agree on the vaccine.

The offer has been on the table for eight minutes now, and no reply. I can only assume GD is running scared.

People in supermarkets. Stopping randomly in front of you, blocking aisles, searching for something and stopping anyone else using that section, walking like a heavily sedated octogenarian, queuing for ages but not getting out your money.

Good to see Philly is keeping himself busy.

Never wanted him, never rated him, hated all the sitters he missed, was thrilled to get him moved on without a hit and so quickly.

Aquilani has to be in there surely? He was certainly a worse sicknote and player than Naby.

Reminds me of a story. My Mrs. is a bit of a treasure hunter, she goes on Facebook Marketplace and finds old furniture for free/cheap, brings it home, fixes it up a bit and then sells it. More than makes back what she paid, not a huge money-maker but brings in a few hundred quid a month and she enjoys it. So that's all grand, but one day she found something really special. Apparently just sat on the side of the road wrapped in a quilt was a huge chest of drawers, so she picked it up. Come home to find it in the garage, took one look and said "you sure this was on the side of the road?" Couldn't believe it! The thing is genuine mahogany, pure hardwood, handmade dovetails, the lot. But then the argument started - she wanted to paint it white "as it would look really nice." I told her she was absolutely mental and that painting it would practically constitute a war crime. She came around to my way of thinking when I went online and found the same dresser for sale online for $8,000.

Call me sceptical, but a newspaper whose editor apparently doesn't know the difference between an agreement "in principal" and one "in principle" might not be the most professional and reliable source.

Humility personified.

Even funnier than that shite is Smith kid tweeting "That's how we do it" Fuck off you little knock off Karate Kid. These kids born into the privilege their parents didn't have and talk like they are off the streets make me fucking laugh.

For me the most annoying thing is this fart from Wolverhampton talking like this

Once a blue, always a manc

Not feeling ill anyway. I was due to have a scan on Tuesday which checks the spread into the bones but their bloody machine's broken. Waiting for an update. Thanks for asking.

I was back in to see my lead surgeon yesterday after my op for the cancer reoccurrence in January. It's been a fucker of a time since the op. I ended up with a few complications along the way and this recovery has hit me more than anything I went through last time, including the chemo and other treatments. Aside from appointments at the hozzy, I'd only left the house once or twice in 2 months and haven't been able to work (I used to even work while getting chemo!), which would normally piss me off, but I haven't given 2 fucks. I had a small procedure on Friday for them to kind of "finish off" from the surgery (which should have happened ages ago, but couldn't because of the complications). And while that was a bit of been a step back immediately, it's allowed me for the first time pretty much since I left hospital to take some steps forward, to the point while I'm not there yet, I feel pretty good - and I've even been out, gone to town to check the mail in the office, got my hair cut and went wild and had a coffee. So to my good news from yesterday, they got everything out and the results back show all the margins were clear, as were the surrounding lymph nodes they took out. He thinks there is a 95% chance it won't reoccure again, so hopefully this shite is behind me and I will be under regular surveillance for years - with the next scan in 4 months. I've not been on here for a while, so gutted to read about @tokyojoe , I hope you are doing alright fella. One of my mates I go the match with went through the same when I went throughy first batch. Col - fingers crossed for your mum. And there we go, some great news on this thread - in fact the same about Mrs S's cancer too.

There’s a very good bot on Twitter that looks for the #IWD from companies and then retweets with their gender pay gap. Capita is 33%. https://twitter.com/paygapapp/status/1501111754134376448?s=21

Tom from Medium (formerly Tom from Facebook) One last C/P for old times sake and all the good times we had reading Tom, I will just post alert links that he has spoken from now on, for people who might be interested but not so much that they would be regularly checking or following Medium. I hope updates are accessible if you are not a member. Don't quite agree on Mariupol, I think the organized city defense has collapsed, there was a video late yesterday distributed by Azov showing a botched attempt to hit a Russian tank (from the wrong position) which was immediately geolocated to a position further east in the very center of town than even the Russian maps show their advance. "Ukraine War, 26–27 March, 2022 Good morning everybody! This is going to be my first summary on the Ukrainian War posted on Medium.com, and ‘only’ linked to the FB — and it’s going to cover the last 48 hours, i.e. 26 and 27 Mar 22. (My earlier coverage of this war can be found on my Facebook Account, and, as usual for so many other wars fought over the last 23 years, though for registered users only, on ACIG.info forum.) Abbreviations CAA — Combined Arms Army (Russia) CO — commanding officer BTG — Battalion Tactical Group (Russia) GCAA — Guards Combined Arms Army (Russia) GIAP — Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Russia) GMRD — Guards Motor Rifle Division (Russia) GTA — Guards Tank Army (Russia) GTD — Guards Tank Division (Russia) GTR — Guards Tank Regiment (Russia) HQ — headquarters IFV — infantry fighting vehicle Keystone Cops in Moscow — Ministry of Defence (Russia) LOC — Line of Control (old frontline between Ukraine and Separatists in the Donbass region) MANPAD — man-protable air defence system MBT — main battle tank Mech — Mechanised Brigade (Ukraine) MRB — Motorized Rifle Brigade MRD — Motorized Rifle Division People in Need of Fresh Air — Pentagon (USA) PGM — precision guided munition RFA — Russian Federation Army/Russian Armed Forces RF-9xxxx — Russian military aviation registration UAF — Ukrainian armed Forces UCAV — unmanned combat aerial vehicle VDV — Vozdushno-desantnye voyska (Russian Airborne forces) VKS — Vozdushno-kosmicheskiye sily (Air-Space Force, Russia) West OSK — Western Military District, RFA STRATEGIC Social media is abuzz with RUMINT along which the Russian negotiators, ‘do not demand Ukraine to be denazified any more’, but ‘only’ demand Kyiv not to join the NATO — in exchange for security guarantees and EU-membership. Certainly enough, even Zelensky has (once again) signalled his readiness to compromise on Ukraine’s neutral status. However, I doubt this is going to work: as described in the article by Sergiy Sydorenko I’ve posted yesterday on the Facebook, alone removing the intention to join the NATO from the Ukrainian Constitution is entirely impossible as long as emergency law is in force (and I doubt Zelensky is going to change this as long as there are any Russian troops left in Ukraine). Moreover, the last I’ve heard, Putin said to his chief negotiator, Roman Abramovich, to forward his ‘personal message’ to Zelensky (quote): ‘I’m going to eradicate Ukraine. Eradicate it’. The Railway War in Belarus is going on: the second train carrying RFA equipment was derailed within only three days. Sadly, it remains unknown exactly where. The authorities are arresting and interrogating employees. On the other hand: over the last few days, a series of Russian cruise-missile strikes destroyed much of Ukrainian strategic reserves of fuel, many of factories necessary to repair damaged weapons, and several of ammunition depots. RUMINT has it that — together with losses in heavy equipment — this already has its effects on the capability of the Ukrainian Army to run large-scale offensive operations. AIR Yesterday in the morning, the Keystone Cops in Moscow claimed the destruction of four Ukrainian Su-24s in the Chernihiv area (incl. one near Repka and one near Gorodnya), and the downing of one Ukrainian Su-27 near Kramatorsk. Brief analysis: Ukrainian Su-24s active over Chernihiv…? That’s highly interesting. Especially considering the Keystone Cops have claimed the destruction of 90% of the Ukrainian Air Force, two weeks ago; and then the destruction of more of Ukrainian combat aircraft than the UkAF used to have before the war… Ah yes, and they claimed the destruction of 19 Ukrainian UAVs, yesterday, too. The latter alone is not only an insane number: me thinks, it’s indicating the Ukrainian deployment of loitering precision guided ammunition, which is surely no good news for the Russians. A Su-30SM of the VKS was shot down near Izium. The Sukhoi-pilot, Colonel Sergey Kosyk, was captured alive; fate of his navigator/bombardier remains unknown. Kosyk served in Syria while his unit, 14 GIAP from Kursk AB, was still equipped with MiG-29s, back in 2017. Under interrogation, he has ‘confirmed’: the VKS is ‘bombing coordinates’, exactly as described already weeks ago… But, ‘don’t worry’: the VKS is said to have been reinforced meanwhile. RUMINT has it, all four Armenian Su-30MKs and their crews have been sent to participate in the aggression on Ukraine, about two weeks ago. Accordingly, the aircraft have been integrated into one of Su-30-equipped units of the VKS. Not sure if the same could be valid for their crews, though: due to the lack of money, they’ve received only minimal training at home (have got their air-to-air missiles only the last year). Of course, Armenians are (fiercely) denying all such reports. Finally, there’s a lots of talk about the delivery of British-made Starstreak MANPADs to Ukraine, these days. Got no confirmation, but ‘that feeling’ tells me these were delivered already weeks ago: it simply takes time to train their operators, because Starstreaks are hard to master. NORTH The West OSK brought in a new CO for the battered 35th and 36th CAAs, north west of Kyiv: Colonel-General Aleksander Chayko was flown in all the way from the Eastern Military District to regroup at least the 35th CAA in the Chernobyl area, pending resumption of offensive operations north-west of Kyiv. The video here is, supposedly, shown the arrival of fresh VDV units in that part of Ukraine, too. Perhaps Chayko was assigned to the West OSK much too late? It is now confirmed that yesterday, 27 Mar, the Ukrainians have recovered all of Irpin, and then pushed on Bucha, where fighting is in full swing. (Please mind: Irpin is still much too dangerous for any civilians to return. This is unlikely to change any time soon.) NORTH-EAST Reportedly, the Russian troops have left the town of Slavutych, on 26 Mar, but ‘remain in the vicinity’. Perhaps the 41st CAA has not enough troops to garrison it? Chernihiv remains under vicious air- and artillery bombardment. Reportedly, up to 200 civilians are killed every day. When it comes to the situation further south, and then from eastern Kyiv and Brovary to Sumy… While the Ukrainian GenStab was claiming that it repelled an attack of the 90th TD in direction of Brovary, on 27 Mar, to me it appears as if units of the 2nd GCAA — deployed further south-east, foremost along the H-07 highway — were in the process of ‘melting away’, the last two days. Sure, at least two BTGs of the 90th GTD were still along the M-01 highway in the north, but further east it seems that most of the 2nd GMRD has ‘disappeared’: that division is not where it used to be (along the H-07). Or, better said: the Ukrainians are where the Russians were only some 4-5 days ago. They (plus the Georgian Legion), are capturing plenty of lonesome Russian troops left behind in different villages along the H-07 — and that all the way from Hoholiv to at least Lukyanivka, perhaps even to Pryluky (which remains under Ukrainian control). That would mean: if there’s still any coherent Russian frontline in this part of Ukraine left, then somewhere between Bohdanivka on M-01/E-95 and… perhaps, but not sure: Nova Basan; more likely: Brahyntsi (10km north of Nova Basan). Romny also remains under Ukrainian control: I’m only not sure how much of the H-07 between Romny and Sumy is still under Russian control (if at all): if it is not, the Ukrainians could drive from Romny all the way to Konotop….? Further east….the condition of the 1st GTA appears to be similar to that of the 2nd GCAA. Ukrainians report the CO 13th TR (4th GTD) committed suicide on 26 Mar: on the same day, they have lifted the siege of Lebedyn, then punched north from Okhtyrka and re-opened the H-12 highway all the way to Sumy (reportedly, the road is thus free all the way to Poltava in the south!). Further east, the Ukrainians have liberated Velyka Pysarvika, on the border to Russia, and were advancing along the P45, via Mezenivka to Krasnopilya, both of which were liberated — and that already two days ago. That means: deep through the southern flank of the 4th GTD, 47th GTD, 27th GMRB, and all the way into what used to be the rear of the 2nd GMRD! I really have a problem to believe it, but it’s confirmed. Indeed, between 26 and 27 Mar, Sumy experienced its first ‘quiet’ night (no shelling) since the start of the war. Mind: this all means that there is something like ‘complete collapse’ of two Russian armies on a stretch of nearly 300 km between eastern Kyiv and the Russian border. That the 2nd GCAA and the 1st GTA have suffered extensive losses early during the war is well-known, but sorry: I have seen no evidence for both of these being ‘completely destroyed’. That would take the deployment of much more massive and much faster Ukrainian forces than we get to see there (lots of infantry). Instead, I remain at the conclusion that the Russians are in the process of withdrawing back towards the border, i.e. re-shuffling their units out of north-eastern Ukraine and then to the south, as described earlier, and that the Ukrainians are trying to follow, but only occasionally catching some of Russian rear-guard. In the Kharkiv area, the Ukrainians have liberated Vilkhivka, north-east of the city, on 26 Mar. South-east of Kharkiv…. Here I’m not sure any more what exactly is going on. After forcing the Ukrainian 81st Airborne to withdraw from Izium, two days ago, and then reinforcing the 144th MRD through addition of a Naval Infantry Brigade (either the 155th of the Pacific Fleet or a similar unit from the Baltic Fleet?), and elements of the 1st GTA, on 26, the Russians first appeared to be making good advance from Kamyanka in direction of Barvinkove….but, then…. no idea: except for indicating vivid aerial activity, both sides fell silent. All I can write right now is that the Ukrainians took photos of one of two pontoon bridges in the Siversky area, from about 100–150m away, in damaged condition, with semi-sunken armoured vehicles — and quite a lots of shell-craters — next to it. Perhaps the 92nd Mech drove all the way into the Russian back, thus collapsing the advance of the 144th…? EAST The Russians are shelling Rubizhne and Severodonetsk like all day for nearly five weeks now. No change in that area. However, south-west of Horlivka, they are meanwhile attacking Panteleimonikva on the road to Kramatorsk. That remains bad news for the Ukrainians: regardless how well-organised and fortified ‘in depth’, their defence line is penetrated here, and they’ll have to find a way to stop this. Ukrainians are reporting better news from the Vuhledar area: i.e. their GenStab claims a Russian attack on this important town was repelled. SOUTH The last two days, General Mizintsev (CO 8th CAA) continued pushing the Chechens and Rosgvardia troops from the east into the Azovstal Factory. Kadyrov appeared in Mariupol, apparently to bolster the morale of his troops there, while the Azov Regiment is reporting ‘ruthless’ combat, indicating heavy losses on both sides. That said, its Chief-of-Staff, Captain Bohdan Krotevych said the garrison is holding out, and I’ve found no confirmation for the Russians making any significant gains over the last two days. Seemingly, no big news from the Kherson area. Only reports about VKS aircraft flying reconnaissance all the way to Odessa. Infiltrations of the Ukrainian infantry in direction of the city now seem to be the biggest problem for the 49th CAA, rendering it incapable of running offensive operations. https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-26-27-march-2022-dd6dab99a963

There's a shitter in the background?

Was a crap president too.